All of the GURUS just use that as a "sales-tactic" to get you to fork over thousands of dollars to learn their "magic".

I need to know if the "let's buy this now and repair the property slowly as time goes on" tactic is a good plan for a value-play purchase considering all the above.

Unless you are talking about complicated depreciation tactics like super pro to break all the assets down and get to maximize the benefit, depreciation for your property is pretty straight forward.

If they can't or won't do that, chances are they are using the story as a delay tactic.

Using that same conversion rate of 8%, your team has now generated 96 leads and 8 new transactions - an 800% increase over the lone wolf tactics, and 2.66 times as much new business for each individual.

Brandon Turner's BRRRR tactic.

Stories have been told of a handful of investors bidding down all the properties and winning, so the questions are as follows:1) What are some tactics or general actions to take that would win a property?

HelloWhat tactics or solutions have you used to find "tried, retiring investors".

;)I too agree that $15k seems quite high....if it's a negotiation tactic with the seller, then good for you, but I'd guess you could get a quality tear off and new roof for half of that. 

If you've got a pile of parts to assemble into a finished good, you don't pay sales tax when you buy the parts.That said, I have not heard of this tactic for flipping.